lagoonlet

lagoonlet noun: a small lagoon.

Noun

lagoonlet (plural lagoonlets)

(uncommon) A small lagoon.
- Wangava is said to have a tidal lake in the centre, while in Namuka and the two Ongea, the water has broken through the reefs of the former atolls, and opened lagoonlets to the sea;1898 March 7, J. Stanley Gardiner, “The Coral Reefs of Funafuti, Rotuma and Fiji together with some Notes on the Structure and Formation of Coral Reefs in general”, in Proceedings of the Cambridge...
- In some atolls, each constituent island of the ring is itself an atollon and encloses its own lagoonlet ; […]1909 June 15, F. Wood Jones, “The Coral Island Question”, in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, page 672

One in long Island is only a few yards across, the banks are of coral conglomerate and loose blocks, and the floor of the lake or lagoonlet of coral with a deposit of mud.1919 January 23, W. J. Dakin, “The Percy Sladen Trust Expeditions to the Abrolhos Islands”, in The Journal of the Linnean Society of...
Behind the ridge is a lagoonlet about 4' deeper.1964 September 30, Alan J. Kohn, “Notes on Indian Ocean atolls visited by the Yale Seychelles Expedition”, in Atoll Research Bulletin...

plural	lagoonlets

From lagoon + -let.

What does lagoonlet mean?: Lagoonlet means a small lagoon.
How do you use lagoonlet in a sentence?: One in long Island is only a few yards across, the banks are of coral conglomerate and loose blocks, and the floor of the lake or lagoonlet of coral with a deposit of mud.
What part of speech is lagoonlet?: Lagoonlet is a noun.
What is the plural of lagoonlet?: The plural of lagoonlet is lagoonlets.

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